GWR08 Traction Engines Attending

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Steam Rollers

1. Aveling & Porter.
Year of Manufacture: 1894. Owner: Peter Smith. Works No: 3430.
Reg. No. PB 9801 Weight: 10 Tons.
History: Supplied new to Messrs Stephen Kavangh, of Tolworth, Surry on 26th September 1894 Worked with them until 1955, and then sold for scrap to J.W. Hardwick of West Ewell in 1957. Saved for preservation in 1968 and originally restored by A.H. Overington in 1970, named Sarah after his daughter, attended its first steam rally in Dorking in 1972. Purchased by the present owner in 1983.between 1990-1996 a major restoration took place including a new fire box. Presented today in the fleet livery of her original owner.

2. Aveling & Porter.
Year of Manufacture: 1899. Owner: Peter Symcs. Mate: John Drinkwater.
Works No. 4463. Reg. No. BY 2196. Weight: 12 M Tons.
History: New to Corydon Corporation on the 6th January 1900. Worked until 1960. Acquired by I lardwick Bros of West Ewell, who hired it out 1962. The roller returned to Hardwick's yard and went into their scrap pile. Purchased as 10 tons of scrap by present owner in 1975 with many components missing. There followed a long term restoration project. First public appearance in working order at the Toddington Rally October 2007.

3. Aveling & Porter. (Brittania).
Year of Manufacture: 1915. Owner: Henri Callings. Mate: David Morgan.
Works No. 8548. Reg. No. AF 4442. NHP: 5.
Weight 10 tons.
History: New to R. Dingle & Sons, Stoke Climsland, Cornwall. It was the first new Aveling &. Porter to the firm and named Britannia. In 1955 it was sold to James Cockerell, civil engineers, Salisbury. Sold to Turner scrap merchants of Ebbw Vale in 1965, and used in the dismantling of Ebbw Vale Steel Works.

4. Wallis & Steevens Advance.
Year of Manufacture: 1926. Owner: D. Wothers. Mate: L Wothers.
Works No. 7905. Reg. No. OT 3191. Weight: 10 tons.
History: Devon County Council roller till the Mid 1980s sold from the council yard to Mr A.T.Vince of High Wycombe. Purchased from him in 1994 stored and painted to its current condition work on going.

Road Locomotives.

5. Burrell. (Dorothy).
Year of Manufacture: 1931. Owner: Denis Smith. Mate: Brian Smith.
Works No: 4093. Reg. No.DV 9252. Weight 10 tons.
History: THE LAST 3 SPEED ROAD LOCOMTIVE BUILT BY Bun-ell's of Thctford. Worked
in the Tiverton area of Devon came into preservation in 1953, first rallied in 1968. Present

6. Fowler- (Highland Lass.)
Vi-.ii dI Manufacture: 1931. Owner: M. Shepherd. Mate: Robin Ceney.
Works No. 19456. Reg. No. SE 3563. NHP: 5.
Weight 12 tons:
History: Supplied new to Banffshire County Council and then to the Earl of Seaford Estates, finally ending her working days with McAlpine
Construction of Newcastle-on-Tyne in the late 60s. Purchased by present owner in 1993, she regularly steamed on the road to rallies. A recent visitor to southern Ireland for a charity event.

Traction Engines.

7. Aveling & Porter. (Queen Victoria).
Year of Manufacture: 1899. Owner: Michael Hynd. Mate: Douglas Hynd.
Works No. 4255. Reg. No.TA 1063. NHP: 6.
Weight 10 tons:
History. AC6 Compound Convertible Traction Engine fitted with the maker's early overhead slide valve design of cylinder. New to Mounce and son in Devon agricultural engineers spent its working life driving a threshing box. In the early 1950s She was sold to WL. Barrett of Albaston near Gunislake, Cornwall Where she spent her last years of commercial life driving a rack saw bench making coffin boards and firewood for the local community.

8. Richard Homsby. (Maggie.)
Year of Manufacture: 1889. Owner: Clive Hartwright.      Mate: Eoin Hartwright.
Works No. 6557. Reg. No. FL 2598. NHP: 8.
Weight: 12 tons.
History: Richard Hornsby only built 106 tractions, as they were one of the first companies to concentrate on the manufacture of internal combustion engines. This one of seven to survive from this early period. Supplied new to Ratclifte ck co. of Derby, it then passed to Mr. Harry Gibbons & Son of Caister near Peterborough who used it for contract threshing for 38 years. The engine stood idle for twenty years during which time it lost its motion rods. How ever these were found in 1939 to enable the it to resume threshing work... In 196$ Mr. D.G. Hackett of Ross-on-Wye rescued the engine for preservation, Sold to Bob Markham in September 1977, Purchased by present owner in February 1999. This engine has been restored back to the condition she left the works.

9. Robey&Co.   (Pride of the Walk).
Year of Manufacture: 1908. Owner: Wallington Family.    Works No. 28094-
Reg. No. AO 8932. NHP: 5.
History: New to J. Thompson of Gilcrux, Cumbria. Where the engine spent all of its working life. Sold to Sid Sutton of Beckermet, Cumbria in 1955 for preservation. Purchased by the present owner in 1973. Pride of the walk is celebrating its 100th birthday this year.

10. Burrell. (Keeling).
Year of Manufacture: 1909. Owner Dave Smith. Works No. 3121.
Reg. No. NO 1310. NHP: 8.
History: New to John White of Reitendon in Essex. In 1946 the Burrell passed to the Keeling family. Farmers in Barlcylands in Essex, where she was lucky to escape being sent for scrap. Around the 1960s (ieorge Allord bought the engine from the Keeling family and attended the Wadebridge rally in 1968. Purchased by the present owner. In 1995.

11. Marshall. (Alderman).
Year of Manufacture: 1897. Owner: Dave Paxton. Mate: Mark Billings.
Works No. 28922. Reg. No. BH 7606. NHP: 8.
History: New to William Rose of Haddenham, Bucks. Threshing contractor, Purchased In 1948 by Victor Alderman of North Marston Bucks. Peter Court acquired the engine in the mid 1960s, Purchased by the present owner in 2000.Restoration ongoing.

12 Marshall. (Emma).
Year of Manufacture: 1913. Owner: Terry Petty. Mate: Daryl.
Works No. 61970. Reg. No. BJ 5934. NHP: 7.
Weight: 12 tons.
History: Spent all of its working life in Suffolk with H. Holland Bros. Threshing Contractors, Rescued from the scrap yard in Hertfordshire in 1961, and then restored and attended its first Steam rally in 1967. Purchased by present owner in 1984 has been recently fitted with new rear lyres.

13. Garrett. (Mercury.)
Year of Manufacture: 1910. Owner: Peter Best. Driver: Dave Nichols.
Mate: Bill Collins. Works No. 28410. Reg. No. NO 1186.
NHP: 7.
History: Driven to most rallies under its own steam.

14. Wallis ck Steevens: (Progress).
Year of Manufacture 1916. Owner: Roy Herring. Mate: A. lz:ard.
Works no. 7498. Reg. No. HO 5629. NHP: 7.
History: Manufactured for the ministry of munitions. This traction engine was offered to the National traction engine club in 1957 as a prize in a ffle, at the apple ford traction engine rally's to help raise funds for the club, by club member Walter Edney, it was won by a 14/15 year old boy, who chose to have £100.00 cash instead of the traction engine as his family had nowhere to keep the engine. Progress made its first appearance since 1977 in June 2008. It was purchased by its present owner in 2000 and since then has been extensively restored by the owner.

Ploughing Engines.

15. FowlerK7. (Linkey).
Year of Manufacture: 1916. Driver: Mark Jones. Mate: Andi Jones.
Works No: 14257. Reg. No. KE 2494. NHP: 12.
History: Linkey new to Mr. Pickering of East Bridge, Kent. And passed to Link Brothers of Newchurch in 1925. Worked until 1948 and the stood in Rooklands Farm, Newchurch until circa 1960, entered preservation, passing through several hands until purchased in 1999.

16. Fowler BB1.
Year of Manufacture: 1918. Driver: Paul Davis. Mate: Vick Egginton.
Works No: 15143. Reg. No. BP 6127. NHP: 16.
History: New to Sparks of Sapton for dredging great sarmouth harbour by the Q>llins family in 1932. Worked with them until 1948, laid up until 1984 when we bought her. A full restoration has taken place by the present owners and this is the first time ploughing in 10 years.

17. Clayton & Shuttleworth. (Old Hiram).
Year of Manufacture: 1926. Driver: David Cole. Mate: Jeff Goodyear.
Works No. 50004. NHP: 12.
History: Known as Old Hiram, Built in 1926 for export to Spain, However delivery was cancelled and the engine sold in England in 1929. Little history is known except that it was rescued from a scrap yard in the 1960s having reportedly arrived there from a Basingstoke Sawmill. At the famous Hurst sale of 1971 it was sold to an owner from Portland Bill, Dorset. There it remained for over 28 years out in the elements. Very close to the sea and eventually subject to severe corrosion and pilfering. It was rescued in 1999. It was returned to steam in 2006.

Steam Wagons.

18. Fcxlen.
Year of Manufacture: 1927. Driver: James Harvey-Bathurst. Mate: Boh Haytcr.
Reg. No. FN 9060.
History: Used in the London I\>cks for moving loads until diesel Lorries took over. Owned by James Harvey-Bathurst of Eastnor Castle.

19. Sentinel s4
Year of Manufacture: 1935. Owner: Geoff Peach. Driver: Paul Lafford.
Mate: Steve Hill. Works No. 9192. Reg. No. CML 781.
New to Tottenham and District Gas Co. 30/04/1935. Geoff king purchased the wagon for
preservation in 1965.   Purchased by current owner in 1998 who has carried out a complete
restoration. When purchased, the wagon was very complete and in flat bed form, the previous
owner had started rebuilding and cocentratating on the cab which when stripped down showed
damage sustained during the London Blit: WW2.

Showman's Engines

20. Burrell. ( Nancy).
Year of Manufacture: 1911. Owners. Prout Family. Works No: 3288.
Reg. No. TA 1118. NHP: 7.
History: New to James Mander of Mile End, London. To travel his Savage Steam Yachts, this engine saw service with the Dartmoor China Clay Co., during the Great War. She returned to showland service after a conflict in ownership of Joseph Brewer. Cornish ridding master, who laid her up in 1928. She stood exposed to the elements at Indian Queens for forty years, and posed an enormous challenge when finally purchased for restoration. Two previous owners failed to tackle the task before she was purchased by Dave Prout. Who with the help of his family spent the next fourteen years rebuilding her.'

21. Burrcll. (King George VI).
Year ,.l Mai.nU tin.-: 1913, Owner John Wharton Works No: 3489.
K.i; No. PB9624. NHP: 6.
History: Built as a haulage- mail locomotive, Converted to showman's specifications in 1936 and named King (Scorgc vl travelling in Essex and laller in Kent. This was the first showman's engine lo attend a steam engine rally in 1952 when owned by the current owners father Jack Wharton.

22. Fowler. (The Lion)
Year of Manufacture: 1932. Driver: Arthur Thomson Mates: Roger Johnson, BrianSnelgar. W.irks No: 19782. Reg. No. UB 9763. NHP: 10.   Weight: 21 tons.
History: The Lion was the first of only four "Super Lions" built by John Fowler of Leeds. New to Anderton and Rowlands amusement caterers in the West Country. Sold out of showland use in 1950, purchased by Mr. EA. Lucas of Salisbury who kept it until his death in 1994, Purchased by present

23 Fowler. (Royal Soverign).
Year of Manufacture: 1931. OwnenCraig Colledge. Mate: M.Caldwell
Works No. 18503. Reg. No. GO 5298 NHP: 5.
Weight 12 tons:
History: Bought at The Dorset Steam Fair 2007.

Scale Models.

24. Allchin. (Merlin).
Yeai of Manufacture: 1990. Driver: Roger Page. Mates: Heather Page.
Works No: $251. Reg. No. K56 UOD. Weight: 2 1/2 tons.
History: Built by Bartlet Engineering.

25, Foden.
Year of Manufacture: 1998. Driver: Wendy Stone. Mate: John Sims.
Reg. No. Y241 KUJ.
History: Built in 1998 purchased by present owner in 2002, Travels all over the UK Attended Dampf Steam Germany in 2004. Took pan in the Jack Wharton memorial road run from Fairford to Blanford Forum in 2007.

26    The Harbach Family presents their Duke of Edinburhg's Gold Medal winning 3" Burell Showmans Engine "The Griffin" (AKA The White Rose of York) Built by Steve over 25 years by copying the full size machine owned by a friend, all drawing, patterns & castings done by Steve himself. He was aged 18 when he started.    The llarhach Family 3" Scale matching, playing, 35 keyless Fairground Organ presented by wife, Wendy, drive from "The Griffin's" generator. The "Rock" has about 200 tunes. All carvings & decor by Steve's Dad, Ken.